Marini signs contract extension with Honda ahead of MotoGP 2026

Toyota driver Mike Conway will miss this weekend’s Austin round of the World Endurance Championship with a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Jose Maria Lopez. Conway injured his collarbone last week in what was described by Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe as a “training incident”. Lopez will stand in for the Briton in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar alongside Kamui ...Keep reading

An update from McLaren following Lando Norris' DNF at Zandvoort

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has explained he needs to sort out the finer details of George Russell’s 2026 Formula 1 contract before making next year's line-up official.Wolff has always insisted he wanted to keep both Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli next season, though a layer of doubt lingered until Max Verstappen became contractually unavailable in late July due to a performance clause ...Keep reading

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has explained he needs to sort out the finer details of George Russell’s 2026 Formula 1 contract before making next year's line-up official.Wolff has always insisted he wanted to keep both Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli next season, though a layer of doubt lingered until Max Verstappen became contractually unavailable in late July due to a performance clause ...Keep reading

Genesis completed approximately 3000km with its new World Endurance Championship challenger during the first wave of track testing for the LMDh prototype last month. Genesis Magma Racing managed in excess of 500 laps at Circuit Paul Ricard over five days of running in the final two weeks of August with Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani aboard the first GMR-001 Hypercar. Testing began on 19 ...Keep reading

Genesis completed approximately 3000km with its new World Endurance Championship challenger during the first wave of track testing for the LMDh prototype last month. Genesis Magma Racing managed in excess of 500 laps at Circuit Paul Ricard over five days of running in the final two weeks of August with Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani aboard the first GMR-001 Hypercar. Testing began on 19 ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc's aggressive move was scrutinised

Luca Marini will remain with Honda until the end of the current MotoGP rule cycle after signing a new one-year contract extensionAs reported by Autosport in July, the factory Honda team will carry an unchanged line-up into 2026, with both Marini and Joan Mir being retained by the squad.Mir already had a two-year deal valid until the end of next season, while Marini’s new contract ...Keep reading

Luca Marini will remain with Honda until the end of the current MotoGP rule cycle after signing a new one-year contract extensionAs reported by Motorsport.com in July, the factory Honda team will carry an unchanged line-up into 2026, with both Marini and Joan Mir being retained by the squad.Mir already had a two-year deal valid until the end of next season, while Marini’s new contract ...Keep reading

Johann Zarco will stay with LCR Honda in 2026

Luca Marini will remain with Honda for 2026

It would be hyperbole to say this one single race changed the entire dynamic of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs but the Southern 500 did threaten the expected status quo on Sunday night.For one, it’s not like Chase Briscoe winning the race was some tremendous upset because why wouldn’t he challenge for the win in a Joe Gibbs Racing car after winning last year with Stewart-Haas ...Keep reading

Shane van Gisbergen knew the opening round of the 2025 NASCAR Cup playoffs would be difficult, but he had hoped that Darlington would be a strong showing for his No. 88 team.Unfortunately, it was instead a frustrating 500 miles, and luck wasn't on his side either. SVG complained about the balance of the car early, and despite a daring last-lap charge to steal the free pass at the end of Stage ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella has again praised Lando Norris’ personality, and warned he might unleash his full potential following his Dutch Grand Prix retirement.Norris was a close second behind team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri in the Zandvoort race when smoke started billowing out of his MCL39 with just eight laps remaining. “The engine just shut off and that ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella has again praised Lando Norris’ personality, and warned he might unleash his full potential following his Dutch Grand Prix retirement.Norris was a close second behind team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri in the Zandvoort race when smoke started billowing out of his MCL39 with just eight laps remaining. “The engine just shut off and that ...Keep reading

After collecting 12 stage points and running somewhere between second and seventh for most of the race, Ross Chastain abruptly fell back near the end of the 500-miler at Darlington.It was a difficult situation for the driver of the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, as he fell from seventh to 11th in the final ten laps of the race. However, it was a necessary sacrifice. The team informed ...Keep reading

Isack Hadjar isn’t your typical Formula 1 driver. He’ll come to the media straight after a session – qualifying or race – when he hasn’t really extracted the maximum, and there’ll be no excuses. He’d give very short answers. He’ll look straight at whoever is asking a question and say something really harsh about himself – to the point where some of these short meetings with a ...Keep reading

On the opening lap of the Southern 500, it looked like Tyler Reddick's race might already be over as he got doored by an out-of-control Josh Berry and began to spin sideways. Somehow, the 23XI Racing driver managed to straighten it back out in a heart-stopping moment for the No. 45 team.After that, he went on to nearly win the grueling 500-mile race. Reddick was closing in on Chase Briscoe as ...Keep reading